Category: In the News

CCLP Director Geoff Cowan appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, April 25. He discussed the importance of unbound delegates in the 2016 presidential nomination process as well as the impact of his new book, Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary. Watch a video of the discussion on MSNBC’s…Continue Reading In the News: Geoff Cowan talks presidential primaries on MSNBC’s Morning Joe

WASHINGTON — Amanda Bennett was sworn in this morning as the new Director of the Voice of America, and she promised change: “We do have to change. We must change. We need to change in a big way,” she said, in large part to address the “vast shift in the way people around the world…Continue Reading New Director of Voice of America sworn in, promising ‘to change in a big way’

On March 30, 2016, CCLP published an article on Medium.com entitled “Yes, the media bears some responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump — here’s proof.” CCLP Associate Director Ev Boyle and researchers Jane Yi, Rebecca Mulqueen, and Skye Featherstone set out to answer two questions: Just how much coverage are the top online news outlets devoting to Trump?…Continue Reading In the News: Coverage of our research, “Yes, the media bears some responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump — here’s proof”

USC News wrote about CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan’s new project, the Face of Science. The project is a new three-year initiative from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that will conduct studies that examine public attitudes toward scientific research and determine how scientists and the media can increase public understanding of, and trust in, scientific information….Continue Reading In the News: USC News covers Cowan’s new science project

The USC student newspaper, The Daily Trojan, covered the Master’s in Public Diplomacy/CCLP trip to Washington, DC….Continue Reading In the News: Daily Trojan covers Washington trip

CCLP advisory board member Andrew Rosenthal is stepping down as editorial page editor of The New York Times as of late April, Business Wire is reporting….Continue Reading In the News: Rosenthal stepping down as editorial page editor of The New York Times

CCLP visiting fellow and Russian media critic Vasily Gatov was interviewed by GlobalJournalist.org about “Russia’s official news media…doing more than just parroting propaganda about sensitive issues. They’re part of a sophisticated ‘information war’ with its roots in Soviet psychological operations dating back decades.”…Continue Reading In the News: Vasily Gatov interviewed by GlobalJournalist.org

Geoffrey Cowan and presidential historian David Greenberg offered a behind-the-scenes look at the history and influence of the presidential campaign — from Theodore Roosevelt and the first presidential primary to today. Jeffrey Rosen, National Constitution Center president and CEO, moderated. Cowan is the author of Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of…Continue Reading Watch: Geoffrey Cowan at the National Constitution Center

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle covered CCLP senior fellow Irshad Manji‘s talk at Montana State University….Continue Reading In the News: Manji speaks out for reforming Islam

CCLP senior fellow and Wallis Annenberg Chair Nicco Mele was quoted in a story on TheDrum.com as telling a Harvard audience that “up to a half” of the top 50 American newspapers will go out of business in the next three years. “If the next three years look like the last three years, I think…Continue Reading CCLP’s Mele tells Harvard audience ‘up to half’ American newspapers to go